Paloka v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
762 F.3d 191 · 2014
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Rodas-Orellana v. Holder (2015), S.E.R.L. v. Attorney Gen. U.S. (2018)
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Gonzales v. Thomas · ACOSTA
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o be socially distinct, a group need not be seen by society; rather, it must be perceived as a group by society.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“amorphous, overbroad, diffuse, or subjective,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the social group [petitioner] has described satisfies the statutory standard”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alom v. Whitaker
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.